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...Harvard has good balanace. It should be a goodtest for both teams," commented Olympian coach John Garrity, father of Harvard's second-line center...
...Olympian Neville Hayes added Harvard's last win with his usual victory in the 200 yard butterfly...
...Olympian Ultimatums. In Victorian times, the game of Fathers & Sons was a ruthless affair. Lord Randolph, Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1886, was type and exemplar of a caste-the British aristocracy, whose members had pride, privilege, titles to mark them off from lesser men, retinues of servants and the habit of ruling a vast household and an empire. They exacted a fearful price of admission from their heirs; the initiation rites were as painful as and more prolonged than those for an Apache brave. Before the little lordlings could dish it out, they had to learn to take...
Lord Randolph, a genial wit to his public, was pretty much an ogre to his son. He believed that he had been cursed with a backward boy and treated Winston like a delinquent dunderhead. He hardly condescended to correspond directly with his son, and communicated his bleak Olympian ultimatums on Winston's tardiness, low school marks and other failures, through Lady Randolph. He did not even let little Winny know that he himself had gone to Eton (as, explains Etonian Randolph, had six generations of Churchills), and contemptuously shoved his unsatisfactory son into Harrow...
...time of his death at 63 in 1931, Arnold Bennett was the ruler of Britain's literary roost. He was not only the author of 70-odd volumes of novels, plays and other assorted pieces, but the one literary critic in London whose Olympian deliberations (in the London Evening Standard) were regarded as absolute gospel...